elegancy

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“I took fust-class when at school in the States for elegancy and deportment.”

From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

Here are only numbers ratified; but for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret .

From Canterbury Pieces by Butler, Samuel

The elegancy of which universum, though it cannot be rendered in our language; yet leaves an impression of the Wit on our souls.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor

Wit, ingenuity, and learning in verse; even elegancy itself, though that comes nearest, are one thing.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

But yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy, than daubed with cost.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis